100 Worst Album Covers

Fullerton Museum

Theres a lot of ugliness in the world, but its hard to see it all at oncethanks then to Jim Washburn, who presents here far more than the promised 100 most-awful album covers in the history of music. Collectors like Deke Dickerson pitched in to locate missteps by Dylan (The Bands Music From Big Pink), the Beatles (the famed and gory butcher cover) and James Brown (featuring a photo of Brown peeking through a keyhole and a caption reading Soul Brother #1 is peeking at you thru the key hole) as well as lesser-known anti-classics by Captain Beefheart (the endearingly hideous Trout Mask Replica), the Louvin Brothers (the legendary Satan Is Real) and Blue Cheer, whose sophomore Outside/Inside cover was painted by their Hells Angels roadie-slash-manager, Gut. Its a real testament to the power of the human mindwhich, as included musician Frank Zappa said, is the ugliest part of the human body.
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